Whatever exercises we do on the GPRL course, we are invited to journal about it - to write about the process, what it felt like, what we experienced, how we might have heard God in any of it.

Last night, after journalling about the prayer as art exercise, we were invited to created what was called a 'French Pantoum' from it.  The process was roughly thus...

Read through the journal emtry and underline six phrases/sentences that stood out for us.  These would become the pantoum.

Step 1 - write out sequentially the first four phrases

1

2

3

4

This is the first stanza

Step 2 - write out, sequentially the phrases

2

5

4

6

This is the second stanza

Step 3 - write out, sequentially, the phrases

5

3

6

1

This is the third stanza

The mathematics and symmetry is attractive to me, the  resultant 'poem', if such it be, surprising.

So, here is what I wrote (with a few small tweks, which are permitted apparently!)

Maybe this is God, glittering in the background:

I am pleased with what I have made,

Delight in creating

A little seed, trampled underfoot.

I am pleased with what I have made:

Defiantly bursting out of the earth, season by season

A little seed, trampled underfoot.

I feel proud of what I am.

Defiantly bursting out of the earth, season by season,

To delight in creating.

I feel proud of what I am:

Maybe this is God, glittering in the background